Parent/Child Hierarchies in Tabular with Denali
Some time ago, I wrote a post about how to handle Parent/Child hierarchies in PowerPivot 1.0. It was pretty intricate, because P/C are not handled natively in PowerPivot. Now, with the advent of Denali, Microsoft gave us all the functions needed to handle P/C in a convenient way. Kasper has already wrote a nice post about P/C here. His post is very informative and I suggest you reading it to look at all the P/C functions. In this post, I will need to repeat something he has already said but, hopefully, I will add some more insights into the DAX language solving a small issue that still exists with Parent/Child hierarchies, at least in CTP3.
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